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Rodney A. Brooks

Rodney A. Brooks

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
71
Citations
52759
World Ranking
1721
National Ranking
875

Overview

Rodney A. Brooks is primarily affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their recent research contributions include a variety of topics within artificial intelligence, aerospace engineering, and space exploration.

The scientist's work has appeared in several prominent venues, including IEEE Spectrum and arXiv (Cornell University). The frequent publication venues are:

  • IEEE Spectrum
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The MIT Press eBooks
  • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

Brooks's notable recent papers are:

  • "Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence", 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "A Human in the Loop: AI won't Surpass Human Intelligence Anytime Soon", 2021, IEEE Spectrum
  • "Myth and Machine: Building Boom: Population Growth and Climate Change have an Upside", 2022, IEEE Spectrum
  • "COVID: Excess Mortalities Two Years Later: The death toll is increasingly comparable to that of the 1918-1920 flu", 2022, IEEE Spectrum
  • "The Long Road to Overnight Success: Reusable Rocket Boosters were Decades in the Making", 2022, IEEE Spectrum

Their research spans several topics and fields, with a focus on the following areas:

  • Rocket and propulsion systems research
  • Space exploration and regulation
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

Brooks frequently collaborates with other researchers. Some of their frequent coauthors include:

  • Vaclav Smil
  • Peter Stone
  • Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Ryan Calo
  • Oren Etzioni

Best Publications

  • A robust layered control system for a mobile robot

    Rodney A. Brooks

  • Intelligence without representation

    Rodney A. Brooks

  • Intelligence without reason

    Rodney A. Brooks

  • Elephants don't play chess

    Rodney A. Brooks

  • A robot that walks: emergent behaviors from a carefully evolved network

    Rodney A. Brooks

  • Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI

    Rodney A. Brooks

  • Symbolic reasoning among 3-D models and 2-D images

    Rodney Allen Brooks

  • Solving the find-path problem by good representation of free space

    R. A. Brooks

  • New Approaches to Robotics

    Rodney A. Brooks

  • A subdivision algorithm in configuration space for findpath with rotation

    R. A. Brooks;T. Lozano-Perez

  • Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us

    Rodney Brooks

  • The cog project: building a humanoid robot

    Rodney A. Brooks;Cynthia Breazeal;Matthew Marjanović;Brian Scassellati

  • Building brains for bodies

    Rodney A. Brooks;Lynn Andrea Stein

  • Piezoelectric micromotors for microrobots

    A.M. Flynn;L.S. Tavrow;S.F. Bart;R.A. Brooks

  • Learning to coordinate behaviors

    Pattie Maes;Rodney A. Brooks

  • Model-Based Three-Dimensional Interpretations of Two-Dimensional Images

    Rodney A. Brooks

  • Artificial Life and Real Robots

    Rodney A. Brooks

  • The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence: Building Embodied, Situated Agents

    Luc Steels;Rodney Brooks

  • Achieving Artificial Intelligence through Building Robots

    Rodney Brooks

  • Sociable machines: expressive social exchange between humans and robots

    Cynthia L. Breazeal;Rodney Brooks

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Scassellati
Brian Scassellati Yale University
Charles C. Kemp
Charles C. Kemp Georgia Institute of Technology
Guy L. Steele
Guy L. Steele Oracle (United States)
Maja J. Matarić
Maja J. Matarić University of Southern California
Amnon Shashua
Amnon Shashua Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hugh Durrant-Whyte
Hugh Durrant-Whyte University of Sydney

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